Author: Samuel GarmanPublisher:
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Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Signed letters and postcards from Samuel Garman to Alexander Agassiz, most of which are dated between 1882-1898.
20 Letters and 4 Postcards to Alexander Agassiz
Author: Samuel GarmanPublisher:
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Category : Naturalists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Signed letters and postcards from Samuel Garman to Alexander Agassiz, most of which are dated between 1882-1898.
Reef Madness
Author: David DobbsPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307490076
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Explores the century-long controversy over the orgins of coral reefs, a debate that split the world of nineteenth-century science, looking at the diverse roles of Louis Agassiz, his son Alexander, and Charles Darwin and reflecting on how the search for the truth shed new light on the formation of Earth and its natural wonders.
44 Letters to Alexander Agassiz
Author: Zera Luther TannerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Forty-four letters from Z.L. Tanner to Alexander Agassiz, dated between 1888 March 12 and 1905 April 14; most are on U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries letterhead.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Louis Agassiz
Author: Christoph IrmscherPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547577672
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
A provocative new life restoring Agassiz--America's most famous natural scientist of the 19th century, inventor of the Ice Age, stubborn anti-Darwinist--to his glorious, troubling place in science and culture.
Reading the Shape of Nature
Author: Mary P. WinsorPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226902080
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Reading the Shape of Nature vividly recounts the turbulent early history of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the contrasting careers of its founder Louis Agassiz and his son Alexander. Through the story of this institution and the individuals who formed it, Mary P. Winsor explores the conflicting forces that shaped systematics in the second half of the nineteenth century. Debates over the philosophical foundations of classification, details of taxonomic research, the young institution's financial struggles, and the personalities of the men most deeply involved are all brought to life. In 1859, Louis Agassiz established the Museum of Comparative Zoology to house research on the ideal types that he believed were embodied in all living forms. Agassiz's vision arose from his insistence that the order inherent in the diversity of life reflected divine creation, not organic evolution. But the mortar of the new museum had scarcely dried when Darwin's Origin was published. By Louis Agassiz's death in 1873, even his former students, including his son Alexander, had defected to the evolutionist camp. Alexander, a self-made millionaire, succeeded his father as director and introduced a significantly different agenda for the museum. To trace Louis and Alexander's arguments and the style of science they established at the museum, Winsor uses many fascinating examples that even zoologists may find unfamiliar. The locus of all this activity, the museum building itself, tells its own story through a wonderful series of archival photographs.
A.L.A. Booklist
Author: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912: A guide to records of the Department of the Interior for the territorial period, Section 1: Records of the Offices of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Railroads. Section 2: Records of select agencies. Section 3. Records of the General Land Office
Author: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1804-1912
Author: Manuscripts of the Dibner Collection in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Author: Smithsonian Institution. LibrariesPublisher: Watson Publishing International
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description